Attention, writers in every medium ever:

There have been fewer than 10 documented cases of different-sex monozygotic (identical) twins.  Fewer than 10.  Anywhere.  Ever.  Annoying plot device is annoying, especially when it a) includes no remark on how vanishingly unlikely it is, b) results in a plot that relies heavily on gender stereotypes and/ ( Read more... )

So I like boy things.  As in, things that our society expects males to enjoy rather than females, at least on the average.  I'm interested in a lot of boy things, actually; violent action movies, comics, video games, astronomy, military aircraft, medieval defensive architecture, martial arts, spreadsheet design, statistics, etc.  (Oh, mathematics ( Read more... )

I feel really low this week, and very mood-swingy, and in general like I'm never going to come out of my house again.  I don't even want to game anymore.  Haven't written a word in more than a week, except here on LJ, and really don't feel like I'm going to resume ( Read more... )

So I own Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 5 of the Complete ElfQuest in paperback.  They are falling apart and in desperate need of rebinding… or replacing.  Being aware that they are out of print, I went trolling on Amazon for new copies.  I thought, "Hey, maybe I can find them in hardcover.  Heeeeeey, maybe I can find all eight volumes in hardcover.  It will ( Read more... )

I have done some packing today, and in this endeavor I discovered that six large apple boxes is about what it takes to transport my book collection.  I am torn between being mystified at how I have fit them all in my tiny office for so long, and wondering if I am a genetic anomaly because it is only six boxes and not, say, fourteen.  Just to be ( Read more... )

( Short answer: Because complicated villains set my heart all a-flutter. )

So I've been further considering some of the way these movies were done, and it made me curious enough to take a peek online and see what other people thought on the issue of female portrayal.  Apparently, the consensus is:  X-Men fails, Thor wins.

Respectfully… WTF?  True, I didn't have nearly as many problems with Thor as I did with X-Men in that ( Read more... )

I just got into the first angry, partial-capslock debate I've had in years...  and I won the point.

I didn't get into it in order to win, really; but it's nice to know that my logic isn't full of holes even when I'm frothing.  I still make sense.  Yee-ha.  I miss when that made me feel validated.

ACTUAL PROGRESS IS BEING MADE ON MY STORY.  IT IS  ( Read more... )

I have discovered that having a voice recorder whilst I talk out gaming plans with my GM is BLOODY INVALUABLE.  Also that I sound a lot more like Anne than I realized, and that my speech patterns are hilarious to me.  No story work done because I'm still building that alternate dimension with 0withdrawn0 , which has gotten to the point of really fine detail ( Read more... )

I found a song I really, really, rabidly liked, and so I jumped through a number of hoops and obtained the discography for that band.  I've had moderate success with this in the past oh, Counting Crows, I will never quit you, but apparently not this time around.  The entire rest of the discography, with only a few exceptions (and none of these even ( Read more... )